ISLAMABAD:Director General, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Dr. Sanaullah Abbasi on Tuesday stressed the need to make joint efforts to understand the severity and nature of future cyber security and the cyber-attacks.
“For this reason, it is high time as we need to make joint efforts at national as well as international level to prevent such problems coming ahead,” DG FIA said while addressing the concluding session of the conference “Prevention of cyber-attacks”.
He said that the Cybercrime Wing of FIA was already playing its vital role with meager resources and stressed the need to prepare more for mitigating these kinds of crimes in the future.
He emphasized the need to work together by all relevant stakeholders in the public and private sector to secure the country’s infrastructure and to adopt best practices in that regard.
He stressed that there could be no sustainable development without cyber security.
Earlier, the cyber experts enlightened the importance of cyber security measures and emphasized to adopt these measures on a national, organizational, and individual level to cater to the issue of cyber-attacks at large.
It was highlighted that international standards needed to be applied with respect to cyber security policy and management.
In the first session of the seminar, a panel discussion regarding the prevention of cyber-attacks with the cyber security experts from academia and officials of the Cyber Crime Wing was held.
Director National Center of Cyber Security (NCCS) Dr. Kashif Kafayat, Dr. Haider Abbas, Director NCSAEL, NUST, Ammar Jaffri Director General, Center of Information Technology (CIT), Dr. Imran, Military College of Signals (MCS) and Dr. Ghulam Mustafa PIEAS were part of the discussion.
The seminar was attended by cyber security experts from academia, renowned institutions, and officials of the Cyber Crime Wing.